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Throughout Earth’s history, the continents have been constantly on the move, converging and diverging in cycles that have shaped the planet’s surface for billions of years. This process, known as ...

These hotspot plumes are stationary; as tectonic plates move over these stationary plumes, they create features like island chains or ridges, such as the Hawaiian Islands or the Ninetyeast Ridge.

While we may take this knowledge for granted, this theory of plate tectonics was only formulated in the 1960s. But the movement of plates is known to have a huge influence on Earth; mountains can rise ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years. Topics Week's top ...